Sermon Illustrations
Office Workers Bombarded by Messages
If you feel overloaded, you're not crazy. You're normal. But you may feel distracted, frustrated, or half sick, because the average office worker gets 220 messages a dayin e-mails, memos, phone calls, interruptions, and ads.
No wonder a survey of 1,313 managers on four continents found that "one-third of managers suffer from ill health as a direct consequence of stress associated with information overload. This figure increases to 43 percent among senior managers."